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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 5061616" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>I'm all for it. We can run it like a campaign. I'll make the first donation towards yard signs and bumper stickers and I'll call a commissioner a day for the month leading up to the next season setting meeting. But opposition will be fierce and candidly, I don't think the commission has the collective backbone to pass that rule. I would guess, perhaps unfairly, that most of the commissioners who turkey hunt at all do it largely over a strutter decoy because that's the easiest way to kill one. People have become really accustom to using any kind of decoy they want. And when you start talking about taking things away — be it early start dates, liberal limits, or decoys — people take it very personal. What percentage of turkey hunters in TN do you think use decoys? If Alabama couldn't keep them banned with their long history of old school turkey hunting, I don't like our chances in TN.</p><p></p><p>You would also have the same issue with decoy restrictions that you are throwing at me over season dates. "This is just an unproven theory. There is no scientific data proving that decoys cause an increase in harvest numbers or that the harvest numbers impact poult recruitment."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 5061616, member: 10399"] I’m all for it. We can run it like a campaign. I’ll make the first donation towards yard signs and bumper stickers and I’ll call a commissioner a day for the month leading up to the next season setting meeting. But opposition will be fierce and candidly, I don’t think the commission has the collective backbone to pass that rule. I would guess, perhaps unfairly, that most of the commissioners who turkey hunt at all do it largely over a strutter decoy because that’s the easiest way to kill one. People have become really accustom to using any kind of decoy they want. And when you start talking about taking things away — be it early start dates, liberal limits, or decoys — people take it very personal. What percentage of turkey hunters in TN do you think use decoys? If Alabama couldn’t keep them banned with their long history of old school turkey hunting, I don’t like our chances in TN. You would also have the same issue with decoy restrictions that you are throwing at me over season dates. “This is just an unproven theory. There is no scientific data proving that decoys cause an increase in harvest numbers or that the harvest numbers impact poult recruitment.” [/QUOTE]
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